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IMPERIAL PARLL4MENI. HOUSE OF PEERS. TUESDAY, MARCH 22. . The House was occupied for pear an hour' in a Conatifittee of Privileges, on the Roxburgh'.Peerage, which is to sit.agaitt on Tuesday next. An Account froth the General Post•Offlce, of the Arrears of the last year, was presented, and ordered to lie on the table. • ORDERS IN COUNCIL. Lord 'AtYCIMAND rose again to call fhe 'attention of their Lordships to :the subject of , the Petitions which hadalreatly been presented agaiost this mea ifure„ and of the other Petitions which were con- . tinuatly,ponring in, against them. • Their Lordships surely must feel that when the subjeCtfOund him self aggrievectin his most essential ,interests, it was his right to petition Parliament for redress. Would the House refuse to aaknowledge that right ; or if they acknowledged it, could they be at a loss to devise the ineank of allowing the Petitioners to avail themselves . of it ? This' was a serionS • stibjea, and be inneated their Lordships' seriodilittentionto it. Lord GRENVLLIM ,iriforced the same considera tions,' andleped the people; might be heard as long as the Home of Parliament remained; and was con sidered as the refuge to whinh'the people might apply for the protection of thelr.rights.. ,Lord fl.twkrsatiar had 'sliewn hie averseness to give , a hearing to the Petitioners. , On the contrary, he had himself last night proposed an amendment, which might have .procured them that facility under the conditions to which the prayer of:the Petitions Ahould be limited. If any:better mode, : which was nut irreconcilable with the f Orders o the House, was proposed by any, Noble Lord, he, should not oppose it ; but after the rejection of the .ameudment he hinisell had proposed, he did. poi Well know what proposition he could coke.. • •• • - . A long conversation here arose, reweeting the mode and issue of the motions di cussed last in which it was contended by MiniStersAhat the rejeetion of Lord 'HAWKEsetritY'S Amendment was imputable to the Opposition ; while, thvthe--Op position, it was 'asserted, that the •Arnendment was negatived by the Noble Secretary's own..lriendi. Lord BOOKINGRAIOHIRE at length rose, and ob serving, that 4b it seemed to be the general opinion Of the Hoose, that the Petitioners should be heard, and .that the only obstacle was, to,devise a modeof bearing them consistent wi th the Orders of the . Uonse, lie would endeavour to retnove that ob stacle and difficulty, and .would take the liberty of now inevingi that the House do resolve itself into a Comoiittee ofthe wholti.,HoUse to consider of the • OrderS in Council. " `The Leith CHANCELLOR,. Lord HAWKESEURY, Lord klAnaoWav, and :Lord WESTMoRELAND,.op -oo4edrthe motion ow the " ground that a similar mo tion had , already been made on due notice, and •solemnly negatived after a long'and laborious dis motion,. and would they, or could their - Lordships now agree to entertain the Sante motion, without .any notice at all, when the House was thinly at, .tended, and when their opinion.,might .taken by surprise. Lords 014811VIL.LE, LAUDERDALE, AUCKLAND, GREY, -1101.14 ND, and 4I4SKINE, cis roundly asserted that the . motion .of the Noble Earl, could by no 'weans ; be liable to such an interpretation : that it was evidently made with a view to relieve the House from the perplexing situation in which,they stood upon this 'natter : that it was .trot brought.. forward as a thing unexpededond in• a thin atte,ndance; but on a day on which their Lordship' were sitmmoned to attend :respeding those very 0 ders in Council' against which the Petitioners prayed to be heard... Lord GaiNvit.La of to withdraw hut motion which stood tot . 10-morrew, if the Feud' consented to entertain the preseut,moiioD. • • Lord thicKINOHAM4IIIRE said, ilgt in proposing this motion he had discharged he conceived to be his duty . ; but findiHs that it failed in accom plishing obiea, he had in view, he should, with the !cave of the I:LA.I,e, withdraw it. This gave rise to a tit, t tier conversation, many Ndhle Lords on the side o , Oppo4ilioll eXpELISsiog a wish thatthe 'notion might not 'be' withdrai.vn ; while Noble Lords on the Side of Ministers, and particu larly' the Loan CHANCELLOR; dwelt on the pro priety of withdrawing the motion. The questiuniwas then' put that 'the Motion be withdrawn, which was agreed to without a division. Lord flot.t.,k.tv,, previous Rohe discussion of his Motion'on the general policy of the Orders in wished for the produCtion of some Papertii.,p3r tieularly of a Note to Lord Howick from the Ame,,, • rican Commissioners, wishing for an explanation of son.e points in matters that had passed between them and his Ma . y},ty's Commissioners. Lord HAWK,ESI3VitY would make inquiries about that No*, and would produce it to-mot-10W, if deemed necessary. COMMERCIAL POLICY OF THE ORDERS IN COUNCIL. 'The :Order of the DaY was then moved, and Lord L.l UDERDA E rose to make his promised motion respecting the result of the operation which the Orders iii COutmil most have on the general commerce of the , cou:itry. His. Lordship took a wide field in arguing this point, but insisted - chiefly pa the injurious tendency they must have, first and directly on Amerien ; 2dly, and indirectly, on our., elves. The'Orders in Council must sink 'the value of all the' articles of Amorion export, and thus '.disable the United Swats (thin paying the debts they owed to' this Country. .By suspending or annihi lating the trade of America, there would be no inlet • int o Inc Continent for' our. Colonial produce. In a Word., it was tild‘Objem and boast of the Orders' in Council toirelieve Our West-India Colonies, and to itweate our.general trade. Now experience would' prose the Ilia to be, that they wowed aggravate the embarrassments of our. West India Planters, while they most tend to the detriment of the general coin _ .rnerce of the Empire. Besides their operation upon France . would he very different indeed from their effeEts open • the' inhabitants of this Country.. In Erance it was well known that out of .20 sub limed on - ,agricultural pursuits, while in England . t out of 20 depended blur their comrnerc id and ma taufaetural industry.. In a , word, the Orders. in Council might.affetit the luxury of France; but they must prey upon the eery subsistence of Great tfti; taint Lordship concluded a (string of ROlolu». Cons, to the number of ~ even. Lord ,BATLIURST made a .very comprehenslV*,' and ablo'.reply to all the statement s of the. Nublo Lord, and 'proved, by titts, that since Ilion both our exports and the imports of Americg had con 9.. derably decreased, previous to the issue of the Or , tiers in Council; and that since - December last they had again recovered and, increased in,thevery articles, • the demand for which, according to the arguments of the Noble Lord, most have' been diminished by the operation ,of those Orders.. - Lord Kitio spOke in. support of the Restitutions of his Noble Friend. • , ••r Lord UREA VILLE went over his former ground, of the ruinous consequences to our Commerce which might result trotu tte Orders in Council,, par -1 titularly' as they atlected America, and .which, he contended, would 'be the real cause of the war be tween •the two Governments, if war should ulti mately prove the consequence of what was now transiding. He did Cot stick at saying, that the in tention of such a measure as the Orders in Council„ was, the real cause of the Embargo laid on by' the ' United- States and that such an intention was' known to• the American Government antecedently to laying on the Embargo. , Lord HAIPKESBURY would not at Ablate en hour enter again on the repetition of arguments which had already been adduced in this question, but would content himself with saying, that as tar as his information went the American Government kneW nothing, of the Orders in Council when lbe Embargo was laid on in the American Ports. The question was now impatiently called for, and the House divided on the question of . receiving Lord Lauderdale's Resolutions— Contents • . 1 , • 21 Non.Contenrs - 56 Majority for Ministeri . 3.5 'Adjourned at a quarter-past Twelve o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. TUESDAY, MARCH -22. Lord FOLKSTUNE deferred, till Tuesday the ?9th instant, the motion of which he had given' notice_ for to=morrow. Sir ARTHUR WULLESLHY gave notice, that to-morrow 'he would move for leave to bring in a Bill for the better Administration of the Police of ELECTION PETITIONS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEOUSR, pursuant to ; his notice, proposed to the House at arrangement with respect to the ..Election Petitions now remaining for consideration, according to which three . Committees may be:Wilmot! in each week, two on the Tuesday and one on .the Thursday. •He had intended that , this arrangement should .be ap plied in the present week, but in consequence of the . default of one of the Petitioners, whose Petition (Mr; Sheridan's for Westminster) was to have been considered this day, and who did not attend either personally or by his agents, there remained but three Petitions Lobe considered in this week, one this day and two on Thursday. He proposed to discharge the present Orders for the consideration of those re. maining after the last of Thursday, that of Penrhyu, and to make new Orders for them after the manner ..propoied. Thus tbe six subsequent to the Penliryn, ..which Was the whole number, . whole be di s p otie d, o f a week before Good Friday, which was as early as could be expeaed in consideration of the press of business before the HoLse. He moved aceording ly ; the Orders Were discharged, and the followitiz , artangetnent made :—Statiaex and Christchurch, Tuesday 29th instant Dungarvon, Thursday, 31st ; Newry and Donnegal, Tuesday, .sth April; \Vex. ford, on, the day fur which it now stands. NAM OF TIIIL KINIK/W ELECTION Pascoe Grenfell, ' J. R Mackenzie, T. Cartwright, A. Campbell, . 1. Graham, Jackson, T. Shelley, - R. Ellis, H.Glasstord, I Right Hon. R. Ryder; Hon, C. A. Cooper, I • Lord W. Russell, Sir W. Milner, Lord •Folkstrme, NOMINI£3. Right lion. W. Donclas. GREENWICH HOSeITAL. Sir C. PULE, pursuant to notice, called the it• tentidn of the. Houses , to .some appointments on the establishment of this Hospital, in which due regard was not had to the preference, which ought to be shown to persons who 'had served in the Navy, 1-le cited all the corninissions relative to Greenwich. Hos. Thal, trout the. first .under William and Mary, to thew that such a preterente ought alwayi to be given. He concluded with moving an Address to lets Majesty, praying, that he would be graciously pleas6t to give directions, that all the appointments belonging to the said Hospital should henceforth b. filled with persons who had served in the Navy. The CII4IACELLOR of the 'EXCHEQUER skid, it must he the Ojai of everyone to promote as much as possible what the Hen. Baronet was de sirous to accomplish. But there. were offices for which persons properly qualified could not be found 'in the Navy, such as Clerk of the Works, who should be an architetl ; Auditor, who should be a lawyer, Organist, Brewer, clerk of theChetve, Surveyor, and some others. With these exceptions, he thought no other ottice should be filled otherwise than from the Navy, except when, after .a month's noice Newspapers, no naval person should present himself with proper qualifications to till the office vacant. He should propose an Amendment, adopting the Hon. Kfroner s idea, with this limita tion, and he should, in .the event of the Amend ment being adopted, propose an Address to his !Majesty, praying that he would cause a correspond lug, alteration to be made im the Charter of Greeh ,wich-Hospital. WHJThRE4D observed, that there were ,very few professions or situations, from that of Lord Chancellor downwards (alluding to Lord Erskine), for which persons wbo had 'served in the navy may not be found. flehad now a very meritoriou s p er - , son in , his own employment who had so served, therefore thought the ex.ceptions . Ought to be emitted., • The CHANCeLLOR of the EXCHEQUER was willing to Inuit the exceptions as nmeb as pos. ethic ; but he thought it w ould be imposing useles s trouble on the Commissioners of Greenwich Hos. pital to nuke them advertise for an Auditor, a clerk of the Works, or a Brewer, from the Navy, • 'After some observations from Mr. anSE, rilr. N. CALVERT, and Mr. R. Watt:), Sir C. POLE .agreed to the exceptions proposed by the Ch:lncvllor uf the Exchequer, a; limit. , after The lernarks of Mr. WomettF.Arp ; andlito Motions were passed ac cordingly. MAYNOO-1-1 COLLEGE. On the Motion of Mr. &man, it was ordered,. that there be laid before - the House Copies of the. Correspondence' between the Chief Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland . and the Trustees of the Roman Catholic College at Maynooth, with the In. closures, JOHN NEII'PORT then moved, that there be laid before the House a Copy of .the Statement Presented by the Rev. Dr. Dunn to Lord Castle reagh and Mr. Pelham, containing an Account of the Establishment for the Education' of Irish Roman Catholics on the Continent, previous to the French, Revolution. • • • Sir A. WELLESLEY said, he believed there wasind' such Paper as the one the Hon. Baronet had ritoVett fur in the Office ; however, he would snake? en.! - cittirt upon the subjea. Sir JouN NEWPORT said that he had .a CoPyof the Paper in question in his possession, and it the original could not•be found in the Office, he would bring the Copy before the tiouse in some shape or other. • - • Sir A. WELLESLRY said he • had not the siighteit objeflion to the produaion t ot the.Kper in question, but he had inquired ter it, and it could not be found in the Office; however, •• he would give dire&ions , that it should be again searched fur. • ' the notion of Mr. Fosnn, it was ordered that there be laid before the House a Copy o f t h e Report of Mr. :fay*, respeaing the Harbour of Holyhead, the interovements suggested in that Har bour, and the Estimates of the gxpenoe. Mr. lisosTt.:4l, gave notice, that tie should to morrow move for leave to bring in a :Bill for Abo lishing Feei, and Regulating Attendance on the Customs in Ireland. The. Order of the Day was then read, for. the House to resolve itself into a Committee to consider of the propriety of prohibiting the Exportatidn• of Cotton Wool and Jesuit's Bark ,from The • House resolved itself- into V 'Committee, _ala i Mr. FOSTER moved a Resolution to that effeet. Sir JOHN Nawrowr said, that he disapproved of this measure, upon the same principle that he did a similar measure in this Country ; but he should not t Ake the sense of the House upon the subjea. The motion was then agreed to. • • Mr. FOSTER then moved fen. leave 49 bring in a Bill to amend the 3a(l George Ili. Sir JOHN NEWPORT asked what the obje6t of the Amendment was. , • Mr. FosTatt said, the Mt in question imposed forfeitures upon all Vessels carrying East India goodS to Ireland, except.from the Port of London. This was the part of the Ad which he proposed to alter, otherwise Vessels having East India goods on board, going into an Irish Port, in pursuance of the Orders in Council, would be liable to forfeiture. Sir Jon N New PORT said he wished to see the Ata in queStion amended in more essential, points. He conceived that Irantd had not been compensated for the surrender of her trade to India. _ • Mr. FosTatt he 'meant to c(intine the amend. ment of the Act to the• point. he had alluded. The provisions of the. A6l ,upon the point to which' the Hon. Bart. alluded, appeared to him to be . per fealy proper. The motion was then agreed to, and a Bill was ordered to bebroiaglit in. The Report of the Cdminit - tee of Supply, and the Report of the Exchequer, Bilis Funding Bill, were brought up and agreed to. , Mr. Form brought up a 13111 for Warehousiog Goods' in Ireland ; which was read a first time, and Ordered to be read a second time on 'Monday. The Malt Duty Bill wept through a Committee; the Report to be received to-morrow. The Annual Indemnity Bill was pass ed ; the Irish Token 13111 was read a second time. _ PVT' rioNs AGAINST 'ME ORDERS IN COLINCIL. Oa the motion of the CHANCRLLOR of the Ex climing, the '-'House went into a Committee, to hear evidence on those Petitions, that mode of hear ing evidence being most conformable to the general practice of the House ; though the Speaker stated that it was-not uncommon to hear evidence with the Speaker in the Chair. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of, the Ei- Ctrectu ea, the House. went into a Committee, in which the adjourned 'consideration of the Petitions against the Orders in Centicil was resumed. T 4 following witnesses were then called in and examined, Mr.. Wm. Bell, Mr. Thomas Martin; Mr.,Alexttoder. Forrester, and Mr. Abraham Mann. On account of the lateness of the hour, and there being then five other witnesses to exatnine, the fur ther consideration of the question was postponed till to-morrow, when the latter witness was ordered to be again examined.—Adjourned at twelve &Clock. FOREIGN I!+TELLIGENCE► . DUTCH PAOF-ItS. DECLARATION OF Ti!!: EMYKROIi OF RUSSIA AGAINST SWSDEN. PETERSBURG% FEL 24.--The following Declara tion has been published here a Justly indignant at the violence which England has displayed towards the King of Denmark, the Emperor of Russia, faithful to his charaler and to his system of unceasing care for the interests of his Empire. notified to the King of Great; Britain, ;that he could not remain insensible of so,unjust an d un exampled an aggression on a Silvereign connetteci with him by the ties Of. blotid and friendship, and who was the Most ancient Ally of Russia. His Impetial Majesty informed the King of Sweden of this determination by a Note, dated the . 24th of September last, and presented to the Swe dish Ambassador. An article in the Treaty concluded in 1783, be tween the Empress CATHERINif and GVISTAVUS and another in the Treaty of 1800, between the late Emperor. PAUL, and the present King of Sweden, contain the reciprocal and stipulated agreement to maintain the principle, that . the Baltic is a dine. Sea, with the guarantee of - its coasts against all ads of hostility, violence, or vexations whatsoever, ,and farther, to employ for this purptiie all the means ii . the power of tile , respedise Conttading 'Parties. His Imperial Majesty, referring to these Treaties, considered hitnselt nut merely authorised, but bound, to cut upon the ring of Sweden fOrliis op operation against England. - " His Swatlitib Majesty did not disavow the. ohli- gallons imposed upon him by the Trestles referred to, but refused ail cu-operation tintil the t rench irorgsb should be removed from the coast, pfd the ports of . Germany opened to English Ships. But thequestion here -was, the cbecking of those ..siggressir'?us which iEngland had' Commenced, and by whrch all Europe was disturbed. The Emperor demanded from-the King of Sweden a to , operation, founded on Treaties !- btu his Swediah Majesty answered by proposing W delay the execution of the Treaty to anothet period' , and by troubling himself with the care of openingths• Dutch ports for England; in a word, with rendering himself of service to that England, against which measures of defence ought to have been taken. It would be difficult Ns find is more striking proof of partiality on the part'of theXing of Sweden towards Great Britain than this which he has here given. " His Imperial Majesty, on the ,6ill of Novem ber, caused' a second Notelo be delivered, ite.which his Swedic4 Majesty was infOrmed of the. rupture ' between Russia and England. " This Note remained two months unanswered, and the answer, which was transmitted on the gth of January to his Imperial Majesty's Minister, was ' to the same purpoit as the tbrmer. ," The 'Emperor is, ho xever, tar from regretting his moderation.' He is, oil the contrary, wen pleased to . recoiled, that he has• employed every means that repaited - ' to him for bringing back his Swedish Majesty to the only system of policy which, is consistent with the-interests of his States; but his Imperial Majesty owes it at last to his people, and to the security of his dominions, which is to a Sovereign the highest 'of alllaws, no longer to, leave the co-operation of Ruesla.with Sweden a matter of doubt. • 1 . .. " luforrniici' , lltat j fbe Cabinet of ' St. James's, eit. deavouring to. terrify Denmark into a concurrence with the interests of England, threatened that Swe dish trOcres should occupy Zealand, and that the pos aissionot Norway should be guaranteedto the Xing of Sweden-; assured also that his Swedish Majesty, while heleft the Muslim) Note unanswered, was se cretly negoeiating a Treaty Majesty perce i ve d t h at t h e at London, Ilia Imperial inteiests of his envire 4 would be very ill seeded 'were he to permit his neighbour, the King of Sweden', at the commence dent of a War between Russia and England, to dis guise his-well known sentiments of attachment to the latter Pottier, tinder the appearance of a pre' tended neutrality. His Imperiid Majesty thew fore cannot allow the 'relations of Sweden lower& Russia to remain longer in a state of uncertaiutis Hg cannot give his consent to such a neutrality. ' "' His Swedish Majesty's intentious being there 'fore no longer 'doubtful, 'nothing remained for his -Imperial Majesty but to resort to those means which Providence has placed in his hands, for no other purpose except that, of giving protettion and safety to his dominions; and he has deemed it right - 10 notify this intention to the King of Sweden, and } to all Europe.. , , . " Having thus acquitted himself of that duty which the safety of his dominions require, his Imperial Ma- , jesty is ready to change the measures he is about to 'Pike, to oho:mares of precaution only, if the King or Sweden will,. without delay, join Russia and DeP• mark in shutting the Baltic against England until the conclusioh of a Maritime Peace. He himselt 41110 the king, his brother-in-law, for the last tune, sane - with all the feelings f real friendship, no longer V hesitate in fulfilling his obligations, and in embracing the only system's?! policy which . is consistent with ',the interests Of the Northern „Powers. What list Sweden gained since her .King .athiehed himself to England ? • " Nothing could be more painful tehis leciperhg Majesty than to see a rupture take place between Sweden and Russia. But his Swedish Majesty has it still in his power to prevent this event to, resolving!, without delay, to adopt that course whien.can alone: preserve a strict union and perfect harmony betweePs ,sihe two. States. 4` Done at Sc. Pctersburgh, Feb, t o , l g o tu. . - - • - The Swedish A.rnbassador is still here, and this day present at the bap given at the Court nab' the march of troops, at the head of wtti Pankration, continues without interruption "I— t a Finland. • lls.ssituaon, MAltcli t t.--The Prince of Pond ! ,i Corm arrived here on 'Wednesday, and proctict'en by the way of Lubeck to Stralsund. Letters from Copenhagen state, that all necessary measures hol'o bail taken for the security of the coasts oO st hostile attacks, and a lso for tbe•q7 - ,orous prosetatti on of the war. It is supposed that some time moo Y et clap's? before affairs be broughttoa deelslon,belOgP. ftiCssia and,Sweden. A Courier. was !airily . 0 0 to St. Petersburgh by the aussian Minister at Stock' holm, and every thing depends upon the answer lA . may bring. • • _ - Pisan, MARCH 12.-.;-The Prince Arch-Chancellor has made a Report to the Council, of several De. crees lately adopted by the Ernperor and ,Kirig.-- Among others,there is one DLIC:reO by which tha hereditary title of Ili ince, f aikc, count, Baron , an d Knight, are established. The principal Officers of State are to be raised to the dignity of Princes, and their eldest sons are to be created Dukes ;,the Mini. , sters, Senators, Councillors of State, &c. - are to be Counts and Barons,. and the Members of 'al..; Legion of Honour are tube Knights. The'se titles of Nobility are, however, to convey no privilegeh p er at exemptions from the. operation of the laws. M. &micas, Secretary of the French Embassi to the' Pone, who was last year sent on a Mission to the :King of Persia, was attacked and plea! t l dered a the distance of thirty days journey from Constsn inople, and was in danger of losing his lite. .. , The, S per cent. Consols are at 83 frano 1 6 centimes. - , FRUNCH PAPEItS. PARIS, Matto' CutiserVatiVe Senate has this day held a Meeting under the Presidency Of the Prince Arch. Chancellor. His Highness notified at this meeting several Imerial Statutes and D ecrees, by which; in virtue oith e Senates Consuhullo of.tbe. t tth of August, .180, various- titles of Princei, Dukes, C ounts, Bai ons, and Knights of the Fro 'h Zinpire have been decreed. All the great 1)i11 0 , taxies` of the Empire have been raised to the rank Princes, and their eldest sons are to be entitled Dukes. 'The Min:sters, senfttots, and Counciltiri